Paul Brady releases his first new studio album in seven years Unfinished Business on September 8th via Proper Records. Brady’s 15th solo album and follow-up to 2010’s acclaimed ‘Hooba Dooba’, Unfinished Business features nine new compositions and two traditional folk songs and mirrors the eclecticism of Paul’s long and varied musical journey.

Unfinished Business was recorded at Paul’s studio in Dublin, with Paul engineering the record and playing most of the instruments himself. Of the nine new songs, Paul wrote three with Paul Muldoon, five with Sharon Vaughn and one with Ralph Murphy. The two traditional songs are: ‘Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender’, which Paul has sung ever since he heard Mike Seeger’s version back in the 60s, and ‘The Cocks Are Crowing’, which he learned from the singing of the late Eddie Butcher from Magilligan in County Derry.

Unfinished Business track listing:

1. Unfinished Business

2. I Love You But You Love Him

3. Something To Change

4. Say You Don’t Mean

5. Oceans Of Time

6. Harvest Time

7. The Cocks Are Crowing

8. I Like How You Think

9. Maybe Tomorrow

10. Once In A Life Time

11. Lord Thomas And Fair Ellender

Following the release of Unfinished Business, Paul will play a one-off show at London’s Cadogan Hall on Tuesday 26th September

About Paul Brady:

With a career spanning five decades, Paul Brady, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is one of contemporary music’s most enduring popular artists.

Brady first came to attention as a teenager at college in the mid ‘60s, in a series of classic Dublin rock/soul bands. The world-wide folk boom of the time produced seminal groups like The Clancy Brothers, The Dubliners, Clannad and The Johnstons, with Paul soon joining the latter. He recorded seven albums with the Johnstons and moved to London then the USA, returning to Dublin in 1974 to join premier Irish folk band Planxty.

Following the band’s demise, Paul played as a duo with fellow member Andy Irvine; their “Andy Irvine and Paul Brady” album still considered one of the greatest of the genre as evidenced by the sold out 40th anniversary tour Paul and Andy completed in May 2017.

The late 70s saw Paul heralded as a superlative interpreter of folk songs. His definitive versions of the likes of ‘Arthur McBride’, ‘Mary & The Soldier’ and ‘The Lakes Of Pontchartrain’ influenced countless singers, including Bob Dylan who covered all three and wrote: “..people get too famous too fast these days and it destroys them. Some guys got it down- Leonard Cohen, Paul Brady, Lou Reed, secret heroes.”

After acclaimed solo album “Welcome Here Kind Stranger” (1978), voted Folk Album of the Year by Melody Maker, Paul surprised most observers with “Hard Station” in 1981. All his own songs, the album reflected personal changes amid a highly original combination of rock, blues, soul and pop and became a classic of modern Irish music.

His work soon came to international attention and other artists began to cover his songs: Tina Turner, Santana, Bonnie Raitt, Carole King, Art Garfunkel, Cher, Cliff Richard, Phil Collins, Joe Cocker and Eric Clapton, to name but a few.

Throughout the 80s and 90s Paul toured widely with his band in USA, UK, Ireland and continental Europe. Many highlights included European tours with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. The albums ‘True For You’ (1983), ‘Back To The Centre’ (1985), Primitive Dance (1987), ‘Trick Or Treat’ (1990) and ‘Spirits Colliding’ (1995) further cemented his reputation as a songwriter and dynamic performer.

Celebrated by Ireland’s RTE Television with a six-part series ‘The Paul Brady Songbook’ (2002), with Lifetime Achievement awards from The Irish Recorded Music Association (1999) and BBC Radio 2 ‘Folk on 2’ (2006), inducted into the British Composers and Songwriters Academy (2004), IMRO (Ireland’s Performing Right Society) Songwriters Academy (2013), and honoured by the President of Ireland with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, Paul Brady is not only part of the cultural fabric of Ireland but a beacon to songwriters the world over.Admired by his peers, recent double live album, ‘The Vicar Street Sessions’ featured duets with Van Morrison, Mark Knopfler, Bonnie Raitt, Sinead O’Connor, Ronan Keating, Curtis Stigers, Gavin Friday, Mary Black, Moya Brennan, Maura O’Connell and Eleanor McEvoy.

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